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Date: | Friday 2 October 1953 |
Time: | day |
Type: | Gloster Meteor F Mk 8 |
Owner/operator: | 19 Sqn RAF |
Registration: | WE856 |
MSN: | |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Porthill, Wolstanton, Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire -
United Kingdom
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Phase: | Manoeuvring (airshow, firefighting, ag.ops.) |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Duxford, Cambridgeshire |
Destination airport: | |
Confidence Rating: | Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Narrative:Gloster Meteor F.Mk.8 WE856, 19 Squadron, RAF: Written off (destroyed) 2/10/53, when the aircraft had been undertaking aerobatics over Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire for about ten minutes when it broke up in flight, and the wreckage dived into the ground at Porthill, Wolstanton, Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire. The pilot was killed
Pilot of Meteor WE856:
Pilot Officer Percival Richard Boulton, RAF (pilot, aged 24)
What made the incident particularly tragic is that the pilot was killed on his last day of national service - he was scheduled to be discharged from the RAF the very next day. He is buried in Stoke on Tern churchyard near to Market Drayton, Shropshire
Sources:
1. Halley, James (1999) Broken Wings – Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents Tunbridge Wells: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. p.151 ISBN 0-85130-290-4.
2. Last Take-off: A Record of RAF Aircraft Losses 1950 to 1953 Colin Cummings p 417
3. Royal Air Force Aircraft WA100-WZ999 (James J Halley, Air Britain, 1985 p 35
4. 19 Squadron ORB (Operational Record Book)(Air Ministry Form AM/F.540) for the period 1/1/1951 to 31/12/1956: National Archivers (PRO Kew) File AIR 27/2693/1 at
https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/D8427223 5. National Archives (PRO Kew) File BT233/181:
https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C424302 6. National Archives (PRO Kew) File AVIA 5/32/S2662:
https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C6578508 7.
http://www.ukserials.com/results.php?serial=WE 8.
https://www.key.aero/forum/historic-aviation/58411-meteor-crash-mid-1950s 9.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/stoke/content/articles/2009/01/13/history_qanda_feature.shtml Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
05-Jun-2008 14:14 |
JINX |
Added |
12-May-2015 17:12 |
BlB |
Updated [Aircraft type, Operator] |
05-Jan-2020 00:26 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Time, Operator, Location, Phase, Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |
05-Jan-2020 09:45 |
stehlik49 |
Updated [Operator, Operator] |
17-May-2021 14:52 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Source] |